CORRELATION OF ORAL PARA-FUNCTIONAL HABITS  WITH THE TEN-ITEM PERSONALITY INVENTORY IN  GENERAL POPULATION

Hira Butt; Nauman Rauf Khan; Amna Nauman Khan; Zainab Waheed; Saeed Ur Rehman; Fatima Hafeez

doi:10.33279/jkcd.v12i2.57

CORRELATION OF ORAL PARA-FUNCTIONAL HABITS WITH THE TEN-ITEM PERSONALITY INVENTORY IN GENERAL POPULATION

Authors

Hira Butt Oral Pathology Department, College of Dentistry, Sharif Medical and Dental College, Lahore
Nauman Rauf Khan Oral Pathology Department, College of Dentistry, Sharif Medical and Dental College, Lahore
Amna Nauman Khan Community and Preventive Dentistry Department, College of Dentistry, Sharif Medical and Dental College, Lahore
Zainab Waheed Department of Psychiatry, Kabir Medical College, Peshawar
Saeed Ur Rehman Department of Psychiatry, Shalamar Medical College
Fatima Hafeez Prosthodontics Department, Institute of Dentistry, CMH Lahore Medical College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33279/jkcd.v12i2.57

Keywords:

cextraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience, emotional stability, oral parafunctional habits.

Abstract

Objectives: To fi nd the correlation between personality traits and oral para-functional habits.
Methods and materials: A Cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in College of Dentistry, Sharif Medical and Dental College, Lahore over a period of 5 months from July to November 2021 on 200 participants. Data was collected using medical questionnaire and ten item personality inventory scale (TIPI). SPSS 23 was used for statistical analysis. P values less than equal to 0.05 was considered signifi cant Kendall tau b test was used to fi nd the correlation of the personality trait scores and the parafunctional habits.
Results: A statistically significant weak negative correlation was seen between emotional stability and teeth grinding (τb= -0.117, p=0.038), teeth clenching (τb= -0.124, p=0.026) and the parafunctional habit of biting on hard objects (τb= -0.156, p=0.005).
Conclusion: Emotional stability was negatively correlated to tooth grinding, tooth clenching and biting on hard objects. Individuals with a high score of emotional stability did not have these parafunctional habits while those with a high score of extraversion had all the parafunctional habits except chewing gum.

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2022-06-30

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Hira Butt, Nauman Rauf Khan, Amna Nauman Khan, Zainab Waheed, Saeed Ur Rehman, & Fatima Hafeez. (2022). CORRELATION OF ORAL PARA-FUNCTIONAL HABITS WITH THE TEN-ITEM PERSONALITY INVENTORY IN GENERAL POPULATION. JOURNAL OF KHYBER COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY, 12(2), 23–28. https://doi.org/10.33279/jkcd.v12i2.57

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2022): Journal of Khyber College of Dentistry

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